Kikwit
Americannoun
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Socklo's passion began in his village in Kikwit, southwestern Congo, in 1975, when he dismantled and copied a guitar a friend had given him.
From Reuters • Nov. 12, 2021
"In Kikwit it was also an outbreak in an urban area, less than 500km from Kinshasa," recalled Health Minister Oly Illunga Kalenga.
From BBC • May 24, 2018
The team has also begun collecting blood samples from 40 survivors of an outbreak that occurred in Kikwit in 1995.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2017
In a 1995 outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, researchers observed that all but one of 15 pregnant women treated at one hospital died.
From Nature • Mar. 3, 2015
The New Brunswick, New Jersey, company said earlier experiments conducted by the National Institutes of Health showed that the vaccine regimen protected against the Kikwit Zaire strain of Ebola.
From Washington Times • Jan. 6, 2015
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